A little story of passions is told in "la petite illusion": heavy breathing garnished by a jazzy bass line, a kiss, a woman falls into water at night. While the work's title is an ironic reference to Jean Renoir's 1937 La grande illusion, the association is a dead end: Neither the images nor the soundtrack contains a direct quotation of Renoir's pacifist fable, nor is a similar motif touched upon. The patina of early sound film which is celebrated in "la petite illusion" stands as the sole vague connection to the «grand illusion» - the sound and the look, the aesthetic stereotypes of Francophone cinema made between the wars. Michaela Schwentner's chromatically ascetic electronic manipulation of found sounds and images is a study of emotional images from the history of cinema which is carefully kept in the air..
Playing with the illusion of a two-layered scenario, Grada Kilomba created a silent film in which the characters move inside a white space while the artist, outside, gives voice to the images and becomes a contemporary 'Griot', complete with post-colonial urgency. "Sometimes, I feel that I live a space of timelessness," the artist narrates, "in a space where past and present seem to coincide." To explore this coexistence of times, in which the colonial past seems to interrupt the present and the present is sometimes experienced as if we were in the past, Kilomba restages the myth of Echo and Narcissus using the African oral tradition of storytelling. Narcissus becomes a metaphor for a society which has not resolved its colonial history, taking itself and its own image as the only objects of love. How do we break out of this colonial, patriarchal mould?.
Two young revelers, driven by a Russian driver, are taken to an unknown neighborhood at the gates of a cafecinema where they are going to attend a screening of 1909. They see Douglas Fairbanks, Max Linder, William Hart, Prince Rigadin, Norma Talmadge , Lya de Putti....
Land Art performance by Nanda Vigo..
In Pain’s An Illusion, the second offering of Gallant’s Chosen series, Jodie Foster delivers a scathing monologue from her 1980 film, Foxes..
Premier concert des ZE:A en Corée.
Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation..
Ce conte de fées moderne nous entraîne dans un voyage ferroviaire envoûtant au pays du Gange, des saris colorés et de Bollywood..
Describes how the eye works and explains the brain puts together the flat images from two eyes to form a three dimensional image. Explains the meaning of persistence of vision, and discusses the blind spot. Demonstrates how and why eyes can be deceived, showing experiments with optical illusions..
Musings on Antonin Artaud from a feminist point of view..
A well-to-do female lawyer seeks for love in all the wrong places. She finally finds one but unfortunately for her, he was sick in the mind, and needed rehabilitation critically as his past was catching up with him on a daily basis..
En 2012, après deux ans de tractations, Michaël Sztanke et Julien Alric avaient obtenu un visa pour pénétrer en Corée du Nord. De ce premier voyage, ils sont revenus avec des images officielles. Jamais ils n'ont pu observer ce qui se cachait derrière la vitrine de Pyongyang. En 2014, ils ont obtenu un nouveau visa afin de terminer leur film. Cette nouvelle plongée dans le royaume ermite leur a permis de répondre aux questions restées en suspens lors de leur premier voyage. Comment vivent les Nord-Coréens ? Quelle est la véritable nature de ce régime ubuesque ? Ils se sont également rendus en Corée du Sud afin de rencontrer des réfugiés nord-coréens qui, miraculeusement, ont pu s'échapper vers le sud et témoigner..
A young man unleashes repressed secrets when a peculiar shoebox is left at his bedroom door..
Le parcours unique et énigmatique de l'écrivain Milan Kundera : de la Tchécoslovaquie communiste à l'exil à Paris, de sa quête de gloire à son retrait de la scène médiatique..
Some believe Mars is the next home for Humanity. But the real "red planet" is a trickster; strikingly beautiful, yet sweetly sinister. Even as a growing armada of instruments arrive, this small cold world conceals its secrets. This film merges the mythic and the scientific to show that Mars may not be what we imagine. Settlers beware: the Red Planet may change us as much as we change it..
The New Documentary that proves that 9/11 was an Inside Job by George Humphrey. Watch the objective, factual information in the brand new DVD/VHS documentary about 9/11. This film is intense! 9/11 was an inside job, planned, carried out, and covered up by the power elite from here in our own country. A professional two-hour documentary with original musical score..
